I will ignore the pun in the headline [it grates on my nerves] but urge you to read the article, as it sums up the entire anti-alcohol crap very eloquently.

One paragraph stood out in particular –

It would be laughable if those behind this high-handed tinkering didn't have such an evangelical belief that they are doing the work of the righteous. It's classic tokenism. It's not being undertaken because it will do any good, but simply to send a message to like-minded do-gooders that you're "one of them".

That paragraph sums up the entire Nanny movement. They appear to have this league table and each country vies with the others to be top of the league, whether it is alcohol, smoking or anything else they fancy. Every country wants to be "leading the world" in whatever flavour of nannying.

Frankly I was nauseated. Here in black and white are the Nanny Statists congratulating one another like some kind of school report [“Excellent work Leo, but you maybe could try a little harder?”]. We have all the little phrases so beloved by the Nannies –

"a landmark legislative package"

"widely recommended by the public health community" [Note: the PH “community”, not the experts]

"The duty to protect citizens requires resisting attempts by (parts of) the alcohol industry to derail the legislative process."

The last one in particular is vomit inducing. Big Alcohol must not make any attempt to try to protect its [legitimate] business. It is as evil as Big Tobacco and is just lurking in the Land of Mordor waiting to pounce on unwary victims.

And what is this fucking "duty to protect citizens"? The drones and the sheeple must be protected from themselves, but don't worry – Nanny knows best and will keep them safe?

The article and the letter illustrate perfectly the divide between the Nannies and the rest of us. They are living in a little insulated world and feel they have a duty to make all our decisions for us as we are quite frankly too dim to make any decisions for ourselves. It doesn't matter how wrong their decisions are, how bad their science is or how much damage they leave in their wake so long as the rest of their "community" cheers them on.

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The righteous of 'public health' put me in mind of the primary school teacher's pets, always with their hands up, saying "pick me, Miss, pick me! I know the answer Miss!", and then basking in the glory of approval of the authority figure.

I used to hate those kids. I used to hate the teachers, too. And the school. Which is probably why I left school at 16 with only two and a half 'O' levels. Unsurprisingly, I still hate those kids (who now probably all work for 'public health' or in politics), and the authority figures that they aspired to. It really is a case of "I'm more righteous than you, so there! Na na nana na!"

They certainly revel in the "awards" they grant each other. I see that Scotland is now a "world leader" so the others will have to come up with something even more drastic for the approbation of their peers. I get the impression of a private club with exclusive membership where each member lacks confidence and just wishes to impress the other members with how loyal they are. Fucking nauseating.

" . . . an evangelical belief that they are doing the work of the righteous".

Actually, evangelicals believe in individual conscience and individual freedom of religion, but perhaps in the Indo it would not be politically correct to point to the religious tradition that has presumed to rule upon everything, including people's sex lives.